 | 1886 - 988 páginas
...the present. In US v. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 399, it is said that "when a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be understood to mean what they plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction.... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - 1893 - 1174 páginas
...remedied In US r. Fisher, 2 Cranch (US) 399, Washington. J., said: "Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. But, if from a view of the whole law or from other laws... | |
 | 1889 - 956 páginas
...particular case, nothing will remain, except to enforce it; and where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. Possible, or even probable, meanings, when one is plainly... | |
 | 1905 - 1068 páginas
...they said what they intended to say. "When a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed to general or limited terms, the Legislature should be...Intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. Possible or even probable meanIngs, where one Is plainly... | |
 | 1914 - 1282 páginas
...where a law Is expressed In plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. United States v. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 358, 399 [2 L. Ed.... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - 1889 - 762 páginas
...the case of United States t>. fisher, 2 Cranch, 835, 390, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed. In Commonwealth v. Percavil, 4 Leigh. ( Virginia ) the defendant was held for killing hogs of another,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1889 - 778 páginas
...expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limOpinion of the Court. ited, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. United States v. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 358, 399 ; Dogyett... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1890 - 766 páginas
...sufficiently perspicuous within itself to convey the intent. And ' where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction.' US v Fisher, 2 Cranch (US), 358; Cooley, Const. Lim.... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1890 - 756 páginas
...on Con., p. 220). These words would seem to be plain and unambiguous, and where this is the case, '' the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed and consequently no room is left for construction" (ib., p. 195). Reading the words under consider ation,... | |
 | 1891 - 634 páginas
...United States says concerning the construction of statutes : When the law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for •construction. Sedgwick, in his work on " Statutory and Constitutional... | |
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Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. 
